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Dremio, which offers tools for companies to help streamline and curate data, raises $135M Series D led by Sapphire Ventures at a $1B post-money valuation (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Dremio, which offers tools for companies to help streamline and curate data, raises $135M Series D led by Sapphire Ventures at a $1B post-money valuation — Dremio, a startup offering tools to help streamline and curate data, today announced that it raised $135 million in series D funding at a post-money

Veo Technologies, which makes cameras that use AI to record and analyze football and other team sports, raises €20M Series B, source says at a $100M+ valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Veo Technologies, which makes cameras that use AI to record and analyze football and other team sports, raises €20M Series B, source says at a $100M+ valuation — Sports have been among some of the most popular and lucrative media plays in the world, luring broadcasters … Veo Technologies, which makes

Hootsuite snaps up SaaS specialist Sparkcentral

Social media management platform Hootsuite has acquired SaaS provider Sparkcentral for an undisclosed fee. Hootsuite snaps up SaaS specialist Sparkcentral Source: Tech Radar Software

This highly-rated app blocks annoying spam and robocalls is on sale

TLDR: RoboKiller Spam Call and Text Blocker doesn’t just shield you from 1.3 million scam phone numbers…it just might irritate spammers enough to leave you alone forever. The minute you end up on the wrong phone list…you know it. If you signed up for a business newsletter or joined an online club that gathered your

Facebook revamps Pages with cleaner design – CNET

The social network will also remove the total amount of “likes” a Page receives. Facebook revamps Pages with cleaner design – CNET Source: CNet

More than half of Americans turned to video games during lockdown

With 2020 consumed almost entirely by the COVID-19 pandemic, more than half of US residents turned to video games to fill the time. According to Nielsen company SuperData’s 2020 year in review, 55 percent of people picked up video games — out of boredom, to escape the real world, to socialize — during the first

Re-Evaluate Your Parenting Rules This Year

Some rules you set for your kids will be long-standing expectations. You’re probably never going to be okay with the kids hitting you—or each other—for instance. As long as they live with you, it’s never gonna be cool for them to throw a party while you’re out of town, or lie about where they’ve been.

SMEs get a neat new way to process contactless payments

Fintech company Phos teams up with Mastercard to offer small businesses contactless payment options without the need for PoS hardware. SMEs get a neat new way to process contactless payments Source: Tech Radar Software

Alas, thy Nintendo 3DS will no longer be thy Netflix main driver

No! No no no no! No no, noooooo. NO. NO NO. NOOOOOO. I, simply, CANNOT. Comrades, I hate to have to tell you this, but you’ll no longer be able to watch Netflix on your Nintendo 3DS from June 30. Give me a moment, I have to compose myself. Phew, that’s a bit better, thanks.

4 founders explain the biggest hurdles to flattening the climate curve in 2021

While a lot of our career, personal, and travel plans have been put on hold this year, there’s one thing we as a society cannot afford to put on hold: the fight against climate change. Rather than scaling back the progress we’ve made, many are seeing this moment as an opportunity to create a new

Lucy Mission to Study Trojan Asteroids

Slated to launch in October 2021, NASA’s Lucy mission will be the first space mission to study the Trojan asteroids. Lucy Mission to Study Trojan Asteroids Source: NASA

Jeep Grand Cherokee history: How the SUV evolved over nearly 3 decades – Roadshow

From the initial smash hit to today’s 707-horsepower Trackhawk, few SUVs have stood the test of time like the Jeep Grand Cherokee. Jeep Grand Cherokee history: How the SUV evolved over nearly 3 decades – Roadshow Source: CNet

Samsung Galaxy S21 colors: Get ready for pastel pink, if rumors are true – CNET

Samsung’s new phones might be sporting softer shades. Samsung Galaxy S21 colors: Get ready for pastel pink, if rumors are true – CNET Source: CNet

This is what happens when your Nintendo Switch account gets banned – CNET

Say goodbye to your digital games library and hello to purgatory. This is what happens when your Nintendo Switch account gets banned – CNET Source: CNet

5G will dominate a virtual CES 2021 – CNET

Verizon will kick off the show with a keynote on 5G. And while not officially part of CES, Samsung will cap things off by introducing its 5G-enabled Galaxy S21 line. 5G will dominate a virtual CES 2021 – CNET Source: CNet

Facebook ordered to pay $4.7M to Italian developer over copycat feature

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook has been ordered to pay €3.83 million (around $4.72 million) in damages to an Italian developer over the social network’s “Nearby” feature. Reuters reports that the Milan-based appeals court upheld a 2019 ruling saying Facebook had copied the feature from developer Business Competence’s Faround app. The case

Say hello to OpenAI’s DALL-E, a GPT-3-powered bot that creates weird images from text

OpenAI has unveiled a neural network known as DALL-E that converts text into striking images — like these pictures of a baby panda in a tutu wielding a lightsaber: OpenAI said in a blogpost that the system is a 12 billion parameter version of the landmark GPT-3 language model: We’ve found that it has a

India's Udaan, which operates a B2B marketplace, adds $280M to its $585M Series D, bringing its total raised to $1.15B, source says at a valuation of $3.1B (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: India’s Udaan, which operates a B2B marketplace, adds $280M to its $585M Series D, bringing its total raised to $1.15B, source says at a valuation of $3.1B — Business-to-business marketplace Udaan has raised $280 million from new and existing investors as the Indian startup builds a war-chest … India's Udaan, which

Heat Turns 3D Printer Filament into Springs

The next time you find yourself in need of some large-ish plastic springs, maybe consider [PattysLab]’s method for making plastic springs out of spare filament. The basic process is simple: tightly wind some 3D printer filament around a steel rod, secure it and wrap it in kapton tape, then heat it up. After cooling, one

Microsoft Edge history and tab sync features finally start rolling out

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is finally starting to roll out history and tab sync for its Edge browser. After nearly a year since its initial release, some Microsoft Edge users now see the full web history and tab sync features available in their browsers. The roll out is gradual, but you

Don’t dox yourself by tweeting about data breaches

This year, NetGalley, the website that provides advanced e-copies of books to reviewers, sent its season’s greetings in a different tone. In an email to its users before Christmas Eve, the company declared: “It is with great regret that we inform you that on Monday, December 21, 2020 NetGalley was the victim of a data

Amazon reportedly developing radar-equipped sleep apnea tracker

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon is developing a new Alexa-powered device that can track and monitor for signs of sleep apnea using radar, according to a new report from Business Insider. The palm-sized device is reportedly designed to sit on a bedside table and use millimeter-wave radar to sense your breathing, keeping

Q&A with Frank Pasquale on his new book "New Laws of Robotics", engaging with science fiction, ethics in AI, big tech, professionalism, and more (Evan Selinger/Pando)

Evan Selinger / Pando: Q&A with Frank Pasquale on his new book “New Laws of Robotics”, engaging with science fiction, ethics in AI, big tech, professionalism, and more — Four years ago, Frank Pasquale, Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, catalyzed a debate over algorithmic and corporate power … Q&A with Frank Pasquale on

Massachusetts copies California with gasoline car sales ban

The US State of Massachusetts is following in the footsteps of California with plans to ban the sale of new gasoline vehicles by 2035. State Governor Charlie Baker laid out the plans in his 2050 decarbonization road map, which included measures to reduce emissions from passenger vehicles, Car and Driver reports. The most notable of

Here’s what that WhatsApp privacy policy pop-up means for you

If you use WhatsApp, you probably spotted a pop-up on your phone sometime in the last 24 hours, suggesting that the service has updated its privacy policy — and promptly clicked the button at the bottom to proceed. If you read more closely, you’ll have learned that and users have until February 8 to read

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